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Report yields sex answers
Post Date: 2005-04-03 11:31:43 by 2Trievers
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Why do we have sex? It's a dumb question for most people, perhaps, but a frustratingly difficult one for evolutionary biologists. After all, sex is a time-consuming, exhausting and genetically risky affair. Yet most animals and plants, from dogs to dogwoods, do it. Thanks to the sex lives of yeast cells — or lack thereof — scientists may have a better answer for why sexual reproduction arrived so early in our evolutionary past and pays off so handsomely in the long run. Yeast cells that engage in sexual reproduction, a new study suggests, boost their genetic variation and adapt better to harsh conditions than those consigned to an asexual existence. In an e-mail, study ...
Viewer's Guide to Hybrid Solar Eclipse April 8
Post Date: 2005-04-03 09:58:48 by 2Trievers
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Residents in parts of the United States will have a chance to watch the Moon partially eclipse the Sun on Friday, April 8. Within a very narrow corridor that extends for about 8,800 miles, the disks of the Sun and the Moon will appear to exactly coincide, setting up the most unusual type of eclipse known as a hybrid. Solar eclipses are caused when Earth, the Moon and the Sun line up just right and the Moon casts a shadow on our planet. On rare occasions, the Moon is at such a distance from the Earth that its pointed shadow is just long enough to touch Earth for only a short distance along its projected path. The eclipse is only total where the shadow actually intersects the Earth’s ...
PHOTO-FAKING THE WORLD TRADE CENTER FALL
Post Date: 2005-04-01 22:50:30 by robin
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Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program
Post Date: 2005-04-01 15:40:46 by 2Trievers
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Washington DC (SPX) Apr 01, 2005 US President George W Bush declared today that he had signed a rare presidential decree canceling any further expenditure of Federal funds on the US Space Shuttle program. "We cannot find any justification to continue deficit funding of a program that has no application other that proving that with enough money America can do anything," said Bush. "The whole world knows that already, so why keep spending money on it," he added. The announcement was made during an even rarer press conference with Whitehouse press corps, at which the President started proceedings by handing out Easter Eggs, quipping, "it might be politically ...
Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up'
Post Date: 2005-03-30 14:10:27 by TommyTheMadArtist
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Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up' Tim Radford, science editor Wednesday March 30, 2005 The Guardian The human race is living beyond its means. A report backed by 1,360 scientists from 95 countries - some of them world leaders in their fields - today warns that the almost two-thirds of the natural machinery that supports life on Earth is being degraded by human pressure. The study contains what its authors call "a stark warning" for the entire world. The wetlands, forests, savannahs, estuaries, coastal fisheries and other habitats that recycle air, water and nutrients for all living creatures are being irretrievably damaged. In effect, one species is now a hazard to the ...
Toshiba's New Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery Recharges in Only One Minute
Post Date: 2005-03-30 10:42:35 by crack monkey
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Toshiba's New Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery Recharges in Only One Minute 29 March, 2005 New battery offers unsurpassed recharge performance and high energy density TOKYO -- Toshiba Corporation today announced a breakthrough in lithium-ion batteries that makes long recharge times a thing of the past. The company's new battery can recharge 80% of a battery's energy capacity in only one minute, approximately 60 times faster than the typical lithium-ion batteries in wide use today, and combines this fast recharge time with performance-boosting improvements in energy density. The new battery fuses Toshiba's latest advances in nano-material technology for the electric devices sector ...
Large quake strikes off Indonesia, tsunami warning issued
Post Date: 2005-03-28 12:31:43 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Large quake strikes off Indonesia, tsunami warning issued [8.5] Associated Press Mar. 28, 2005 10:28 AM BANGKOK, Thailand - A large earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Island late Monday, and the U.S. Geological Survey said it was a major quake measuring a magnitude of 8.2. Officials issued a tsunami warning for residents of southern Thai provinces, three months after a tsunami devastated parts of Indonesia and other countries in the region. The quake occurred at 11:09 p.m. local time at a depth of nearly 19 miles, the USGS in Golden, Colo., said. Japan's Meteorological Agency said the quake registered 8.5. Tremors were felt throughout peninsular Malaysia's ...
Scientists think pesticides led to frog sex changes
Post Date: 2005-03-28 06:18:33 by 2Trievers
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Scientists who compared frogs collected over the past 150 years have discovered a dramatic increase in hermaphrodites during the times when contamination from the pesticide DDT and other organochlorine chemicals was widespread. Frogs with both male and female reproductive organs were rare in the 19th century and early 20th century but abundant during the 1950s, when the largest volumes of the popular chemicals were used. The findings were reported earlier this month in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The ability of chemicals to mimic or block estrogen and testosterone, critical for normal reproduction, is considered one of the most disturbing discoveries in environmental ...
NASA Will Offer Cash Prizes for Technological Innovations
Post Date: 2005-03-27 22:58:19 by robin
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WASHINGTON, March 26 - In an effort to stimulate fresh thinking, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced that it will offer cash prizes for innovative technology that can be applied to space exploration. The competitions, open to large and small companies, colleges, technology groups and individuals, are seen as ways to promote innovation by letting contestants pose any solution that works to solve a problem, an agency official said Friday. The prizes are a new approach for NASA in its effort to find new space technology. "We want to find innovation wherever it exists," said the official, Brant Sponberg, manager of the Centennial Challenges Program at ...
Man Sells Device That Blocks Fox News
Post Date: 2005-03-27 07:50:33 by 2Trievers
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It's not that Sam Kimery objects to the views expressed on Fox News. The creator of the "Fox Blocker" contends the channel is not news at all. Kimery figures he's sold about 100 of the little silver bits of metal that screw into the back of most televisions, allowing people to filter Fox News from their sets, since its August debut. The Tulsa, Okla., resident also has received thousands of e-mails, both angry and complimentary - as well as a few death threats. "Apparently the making of terroristic threats against those who don't share your views is a high art form among a certain core audience," said Kimery, 45. Formerly a registered Republican, even a precinct ...
Poor Monkey
Post Date: 2005-03-26 19:49:09 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Poor Monkey "Give me the money and three months," she says, "and I'll be able to affect the behavior of eighty percent of the people in this town without their knowing it." Monkey in restraint experiencing electrode stimulation to its brain in experiment by José Delgado, infamous mind control researcher. excerpts from: Mind Control By Harry V. Martin and David Caul Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991 ...In California, it was discovered by Dr. Adey that animal brain waves could be altered directly by ELF fields. It was found that monkey brains would fall in phase with ELF waves. These waves could easily pass through the skull, which normally protected the central ...
Amazing UFO Video ::: WTC (Check This Stuff Out!!!)
Post Date: 2005-03-26 19:23:12 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Are Your PDFs Spying on You?
Post Date: 2005-03-26 14:31:40 by boonie rat
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Are Your PDFs Spying on You? By Don Fluckinger March 21, 2005 Opinion: New metrics-gathering system is smart business for the people who use the technology, but it opens the door to potential dark days for PDF documents. Like many people, I'm sick of giving up my phone number, my e-mail address, and DNA samples, and/or dragging around a "rewards card" just in order to see a lousy extra paragraph of an article on the Web, to get 10 percent off my car's oil change, or—and this one positively kills me—to get the uninflated, normal price for a grocery item at the supermarket. Seems like every company with which we cross paths in our daily lives needs a piece of us, a ...
Microsoft funding of security report decried
Post Date: 2005-03-25 11:26:43 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Microsoft funding of security report decried Finding that system is superior to Linux is biased, critics say By TODD BISHOP SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Two researchers surprised the audience at a computer-security convention last month with their finding that a version of Microsoft Windows was more secure than a competing Linux operating system. Download a copy of the Windows vs. Linux study in PDF format (265K) This week, the researchers released their finished report, and it included another surprise: Microsoft was funding the project all along. The researchers, from the Florida Institute of Technology and Boston-based Security Innovation Inc., defend their process and ...
Dinosaur Find Takes Scientists Beyond Bones
Post Date: 2005-03-25 10:11:27 by crack monkey
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Dinosaur Find Takes Scientists Beyond Bones By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD live as dinosaurs may seem to children, knowledge of them as living creatures is limited almost entirely to what can be learned from bones that have long since turned to stony fossils. Their soft tissues, when rarely recovered, have lost their original revealing form. But now a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex discovered in Montana has apparently yielded the improbable, scientists reported yesterday: soft tissues, including blood vessels and possibly cells lining them, that "retain some of their original flexibility, elasticity and resilience." Moreover, an examination with a scanning electron microscope ...
A Tyrannosaurus rex for Christmas? (my title)
Post Date: 2005-03-24 15:03:40 by Jethro Tull
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Scientists Recover Tissue From T. Rex By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex. -Snip
Trees To The Rescue
Post Date: 2005-03-24 13:36:06 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Trees To The Rescue In laboratories around the country, scientists are working to alter the genetic working of trees in order to increase their ability to store carbon, absorb toxins, and resist disease. Most recently, the city of Danbury, Conn., deployed 160 Eastern cottonwood trees to clean a 35-acre site contaminated with mercury that was once used to cure pelts for a hat factory. A University of Georgia geneticist, Richard Meagher, has engineered the trees to extract mercury from the soil, convert it to a less toxic form, and finally release it into the air. Critics claim this simply redistributes the mercury rather than removing it from the environment. Meagher agrees, but still ...
NATURE UNDISTURBED - THE MYTH BEHIND THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
Post Date: 2005-03-24 13:31:06 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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NATURE UNDISTURBED - THE MYTH BEHIND THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT By Randy T. Simmons The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is broken. Indeed, it was born broken. Enacted in 1973, the act is based on the myth of the balance of nature and, in particular, on a flawed understanding of the biological state of the Americas at the time of Columbus's arrival. It is not even an endangered species act; it is an endangered subpopulation and distinct population segment act. And its regulatory approach ignores the role of states and landowners in species protection. The "balance of nature" is the idea that nature is characterized by constancy and stability. Biologists today understand that there ...
10.00 GHz AMD Athlon
Post Date: 2005-03-23 13:15:31 by Flintlock
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Features: * 10.00 GHz AMD Athlon * 2000 MB DIMM * 30000 GB IDE Hard Disk Click the link and read the reviews: All Customer Reviews Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers. 5 out of 5 stars Dang it's fast!..but some bugs, March 23, 2005 Reviewer: G. Bayram (Mars) - See all my reviews I kicked in the Liquid Nitrogen Cooling system and it took a crap on my desk...real crap. God I love technology. Warning: Don't feed it carrots.
Predator UAV 'Battle Lab' Just North of Las Vegas
Post Date: 2005-03-22 23:35:55 by timetobuildaboat
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The next time you take a swat at a pesky flying insect, you might want to take a closer look. A new generation of bug-sized robots is being developed by the military, and soon enough they will be in the private sector too. Part of the impetus for this cutting edge research is the success of the Predator UAV, or unmanned aerial vehicle. Predator is based at what's called a "Battle Lab" at the Indian Springs air base north of town. The I-Team found out that all sorts of high-tech gizmos are already in the works out there. When Col. Larry Felder worked at the Pentagon back in the 90s, he was part of an elite team that forecast the potential of UAV's -- unmanned aerial vehicles. The ...
Cars May Someday Come Equipped With Safety Cameras
Post Date: 2005-03-21 21:23:24 by timetobuildaboat
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In the not-too-distant future a driver will zip down the street, coffee cup in one hand, four squirming kids in the back. She'll take her eyes off the road as she tries to settle the kids down, right as she approaches a busy intersection. Before she zooms headlong into traffic, however, a special camera in her car will notice the situation. A tell-tale sound will let her know what's about to happen, so she can get her attention back to where it needs to be - on the road. Such a device isn't the realm of science fiction. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed software that could make the technology standard issue - for about $200 a pop - on new cars in the next five ...
Experts Discuss Nuclear Power As Energy
Post Date: 2005-03-21 16:06:13 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Experts Discuss Nuclear Power As Energy By LAURENCE FROST AP Business Writer PARIS (AP) -- Only by building more nuclear power stations can the world meet its soaring energy needs while averting environmental disaster, experts at an international conference said Monday. Energy ministers and officials from 74 countries were in Paris for the two-day meeting on the future of nuclear energy, as concerns about global warming and fossil fuel supplies renew governments' interest in atomic power. "It's clear that nuclear energy is regaining stature as a serious option," said Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency - the U.N. nuclear watchdog - which ...
Diesel Hybrids on the Fast Track
Post Date: 2005-03-21 15:28:01 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Diesel Hybrids on the Fast Track By John Gartner 02:00 AM Mar. 21, 2005 PT Hybrid gas-electric vehicles are the current champions of fuel economy, but they may soon get lapped. Auto manufacturers are making tracks to produce diesel hybrids that will go even further on a gallon of fuel. Hybrid vehicles like the Toyota Prius, Honda Civic Hybrid and Ford Escape Hybrid employ an electric motor that assists the engine and enables the vehicles to go between 15 and 50 percent further on a tank than a comparable gasoline vehicle. But a new generation of hybrid diesel prototypes being developed by General Motors, DaimlerChrysler and Ford could soon surpass these milestones. Vehicles with diesel ...
How Not to Google Yourself
Post Date: 2005-03-21 15:20:39 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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How Not to Google Yourself Wired News Report 10:27 AM Mar. 21, 2005 PT A Cambridge startup is offering a service it says gives a measure of control over the personal data the internet disgorges, giving new meaning to a practice commonly termed "ego surfing" or "Googling yourself," the practice of typing your name into an internet search engine and seeing what pops up. ZoomInfo's computers have compiled individual web profiles of 25 million people, summarizing what the web publicly says about each person. The service allows web surfers to search for their profile, then change it for free. ZoomInfo can't erase information on the internet, or stop web people searches ...
Critics silenced by scans of hobbit skull
Post Date: 2005-03-21 11:35:01 by gengis gandhi
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Critics silenced by scans of hobbit skull By Rex Dalton, Nature A computer-generated model of the skull of Homo floresiensis, our diminutive human relative, confirms that the controversial specimens from Indonesia do indeed represent a new species. The study of the creature’s brainpan shows that it was neither a pygmy nor an individual with a malformed skull and brain, as some critics contend. This lends support to the discovery team’s assertion that the meter-tall specimen belongs to a species distinct from Homo erectus. A skull and bones from eight H. floresiensis individuals were unearthed in a cave on Indonesia’s island of Flores over 2003 and 2004 by a team of ...
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